New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-28
PRICE THREE CENTS
DEAD IN A LODGING-HOUSE.
DANIEL DRAKE PRICES MISERABLE END.

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BEEN A GENTEEL WALL STREET TRAMP
| poorly dressed man Of middle age who ap-
peared 10 be slcxy, went to the lodging house No.
% Do"ery on Sunday evening and paid the regular
iec Vi twenty-five cents for lodging. lie occupied
| a pea III small single room" on an upper door,
'he room peng separated from others only by board
partitions that did not reach to the ceiling The
| spehe nearly all the money he had when he paid
| Tor his bed on Sunday evening and he Could not
pay on Monday evening, but as he was sick he wac
permitted to sleep in the bed again. lie said he
was broker in hard luck, and would pay as soon
as he could get money from his friends.
In the lOdging-house register he entered az
Drake" Late on Monday night other dodgers
on the same floor heard him fall out of bed He
groaned as if suffering after he got back into bed,
but soon rclaps'd into silence. Yesterday morning
he was found dead.
IDENTIFIED FROM LETTERS AND rAPERS.
In his pockets the police found number Of old
letters and papers which showed that the man was
Daniel Drake Price. Most of the letters had been
addressed to him at No. 81 New-st Worthless
certificates Of stocks and puts and calss
showed that he had speculated in a small way at
Walst. bucket shops and at the Petroleum Ex-
change. Among the papers copy of mort
gage which Price had drawn up in favor of some
person not named on warehouse at Second and
Elm st', Cincinnati ard a ia m of seventy six
at Sharon Station Ohio. The farm vas described
by Price as being part of quarter secrion patented
by my grandfather Squire Glenn over 90 years
ago. The police said the paper probably q
bogus document on which Price had expected to
borrow money. There also a note which Price
had written for $500. payable in six months after
December at No. 81 Ncw-st.
Most Of the letters were in relation to an alleged
clam that he had against the estate of William 4.
Graham. who died IN Sharonvillc, Ohio. in April,
IL was SAID by Somc of the writers that Prices
brother William, in Ohio, had received his share
William denying it, \ letter from Mr. GrslIam's
executors contained this statement:
ing to Induce Sr Graham to admit that You had so,ae
claim on him, and he at all times Insisted that you
we that he did more than a fathers part by you and
Il is monstrous that you should have annoyed hm in
Price had kept copies of letters that he had
written TO Samuel F. Hunt, his counsel urging
hast in the settlement of his claim.
Prices body sent to the Morguc and il is
said that an autopsy wond be made to-day.
small package of white powder in his pocket
but druggist examined the powder and said that
il was not poisonous. The police thought he died
from natural causes
HIS COURSE ~ WALL sTREEr
Daniel Drake Price has been known about Wall
and New SITS. and lower Broadway as a sort OF
shabby -gentee tramp for several years. lie repre-
Scntcd himself as broker with Office at 81
had Office in the building Price was in the
habit Of frcqucnting the bucket-shops and when
Friedman & Co. had their establishment in Opcr-
alton at No. 81 New-st. he often seen in the
place but never known u speculatOr. lie
often went INTO the Hoffman. looked at the ticker,
and watched for somebody he knew from whom
he might get small loan or an invitation TO
drink
An acquaintance of his was A. II. DMson a
California mining broker. who had desll-room in
he office Of, J. NJ. Rcqua q Co., in the Wells
Building. Mr. Requa says Price recently came in
to Mr.. Dis~,n. but lr always conoidcred him
undesirable visitor. Mr.. DXson is at present I'm
Europe. hut from remarks dropped by him In con-
vcrsaton il would appear that Price came from
Cincinnati many years ago. lie was, 1t is said, q
man Of excellent family connection and at one
time had an independent fortune In his better better
days he WAS visitor at the store Of John Gault
the veteran Californian. at No. II Broadway. MIR.
Gault says that he has not seen Price recently,
but when hc saw him last he was IN a dcIccted ana
poverty stricken condition. II reported Mr.
Gault said. four or five years ago. that Price hfd
lost large sum of money. several hundred thou
sand dollars. in stock speculation. and that IN con-
sequence he became somewhat derangcd While
in this condition Price went about declaring that
he was JAY Gonlds son and the heir to
untold millions lie ard Mr. Could were nearly ,Tls
the dead MN is in some way related 10 cXGoverno1
Price. of NcW-IcTScy
Recently Price hal been going down hill rapidly,
Sub>iStn upon free lunches in the beer shops and
slpcpng in lodging-houSes when he could beg
dime from n stranger or borrow one from friend
Of his better days lie went shivcring into the
basement of No. 81 Ncw-st on SATURDAY. ostenS'mly
Stevens the agent Of the building. seeing ms
pitablc condition. kindly permitted him To remain
until he thoroughly warmed; Mr. Stevens
said Yesterday that Mr.. Brown. who was familiar
with Prices family relations had tcegnphcd tho
news of his death to his Cincinnati friends with
request for directions as to the disposition oi the
body.